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Vivaldi – A Browser for Our Friends
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#13I could've given it a try if it was opensource. But because it's closed I immediately classify it as vaporware, and as the browser is one of the two centers of my daily computing (the other being emacs), I won't invest in vaporware. I believe that opensourcing is the best choice of the company behind this.
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#14Been using it for 6 months now and I love it. Verticals tabs were literally the only thing keeping me on Firefox. Love the search bar which splits suggestions into Typed, Bookmarks, History categories. So many great details and customization features in this browser.
It still doesn't nest tabs like Tree-Style tabs addin for FF though right? When they get that I'll switch at least part time, FF for me is getting so laggy (due to inefficient JS on certain websites like twitter) it is extremely painful to use.
EDIT:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/3255/tree-style-tab/16
One page 4:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/3255/tree-style-tab/67
"I do know that internally, there is discussion as to various ways TST might be implemented. Nothing has been settled on, but there is discussion."
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#15I've been using Vivaldi now for over a year (since early beta days), and finding it a great experience.
A couple of things I really like - (1) that the browser chrome changes to suit the colour scheme of the website that you have loaded when flicking through tabs. Makes it really easy to identify what site you are on especially if you have scrolled down past the header. (2) that they have a slider on the bottom toolbar for zooming in/out of websites. For this old guy with failing eyesight, that is a killer feature that I use all the time.
Happy to also see that the number of sites reporting "You are not using an approved browser" has reduced to nearly 0 when browsing via Vivaldi, but that is more a problem for lazy web designers who only create sites specifically for a particular rendering engine, I guess.
EDIT: Interesting Observation - I remember that in the early days, their main selling point was their command line functionality for power users. That was what made me change over back then, although ironically I never ever use their CLI tool set at all these days, and just use the mouse like always.
I note that they have downplayed the CLI functionality on their current website, so perhaps it wasn't such a drawcard for other users either?!?
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#16Hope they will not repeat fatal error of Opera - closed bug-tracker.
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#17I could've given it a try if it was opensource. But because it's closed I immediately classify it as vaporware, and as the browser is one of the two centers of my daily computing (the other being emacs), I won't invest in vaporware. I believe that opensourcing is the best choice of the company behind this.
You are using the word vaporware in a very odd way. Vaporware is stuff that won't actually come into existence. Vivaldi has already been publically available for nearly a year.
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#18I could've given it a try if it was opensource. But because it's closed I immediately classify it as vaporware, and as the browser is one of the two centers of my daily computing (the other being emacs), I won't invest in vaporware. I believe that opensourcing is the best choice of the company behind this.
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#19Is it possible to arrange the tabs in the side bar in a hierarchical list view? It seems it is possible to make stacks of tabs, but the individual tabs in the hover menu are not very accessible IMHO ("out of sight, out of mind"). Otherwise this browser looks really nice.
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#20Is it possible to arrange the tabs in the side bar in a hierarchical list view? It seems it is possible to make stacks of tabs, but the individual tabs in the hover menu are not very accessible IMHO ("out of sight, out of mind"). Otherwise this browser looks really nice.
Vivaldi uses chrome extensions, if there's one that would provide that, it looks like it can be used.